WoW: Dragonflight's New Profession Systems Will Allow Crafters To Make Mythic Raid-Quality Gear
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is set to bring some major changes to how professions and crafting work in Blizzard's longrunning MMORPG, and now new details reveal what players can expect come the new expansion's launch.
As explained in an extensive development blog, professions in Dragonflight will differ in three key ways from previous expansions. Those new additions are the crafting order system, profession specializations, and crafted items having a quality rating completely separate from normal item rarity.
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Crafting orders are fairly straightforward. Using an auction house-like interface, players will be able to place orders for specific items, which can then be accepted by crafters, who get paid commission. The player posting the order will be able to set whether anyone can fulfill it or have it be exclusive to guild members or even a specific person. Both the order placer and the order fulfiller can provide reagents if necessary, but Soulbound reagents will need to be provided by the person placing the order. A new faction, the Artisan's Consortium, will take a small fee off of every transaction.
When it comes to item quality, equippable gear will have five quality levels, while consumables such as potions will have three. Each quality level increases the item's effectiveness by a small amount, with Blizzard stating that the goal of the system is to «have quality matter enough for it to be worth your effort to
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